This book provides students of civil engineering and architecture with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures; and a feel for the way buildings behave structurally. The book aims to explain structural concepts clearly; using analogies and examples to illustrate the points; and it expresses mathematical aspects of the subject in a straightforward way. Fully worked solutions to examples available online for readers. Please see www.blackwellpublishing.com/garrison/
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. demonstrating how cheap films with guaranteed profits like I Was a Teenage Werewolf were the very same ...By Alexander DavisWith The Battle for the Bs; Blair Davis provides a fascinating examination of the "underside" of the film industry. Through and incredible amount of archival research; Davis reveals the significance that some of the most notorious films of the 1950s had for a struggling studio system and a film industry battling it out with the increasing popularity of television. While Davis subject would have been a worthwhile read simply for the current lack of research done on B-films; Daviss scholarship is particularly insightful; forcing readers to completely reconsider previous notions of low-budget cinema as "bad" and; more significantly; "unimportant." With this text; Davis reveals the centrality of low-budget filmmaking to the film industry; demonstrating how cheap films with guaranteed profits like I Was a Teenage Werewolf were the very same films that allowed studios to finance prestige; A-Films. To make this argument; Davis draws upon a wide range of research; and provides a great deal of historical information for filmmaking of the era. With chapters on the history of independent B-Film production studios; B-Films relationship with television; and differences in production styles between "big-budget" Bs and low-budget Bs; this book is a must-read for anyone interested in post-Classical Hollywood Cinema; and is a strongly recommended read for anyone interested in Hollywood Cinema as a whole.3 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Lively but misinformedBy Mark McgeeI enjoyed this book but I wonder where the author got some of his information. Having written a few books myself I know how easy it is to spread misinformation but concerning the career of Robert L. Lippert its hard to understand how the author could come up with Jungle Goddess as Lipperts first release. Go on any website and youll find Wildfire listed as the first Screen Guild release. And there were a lot of pictures after that before Jungle Goddess showed up.